wool-hole

noun

wool-hole

noun

1

UK, Obsolete, Slang The workhouse.

Poor Sam's attenuated form, quite lean, and gone to grass, / Through neglecting his work-house, to the wool-hole came at last, […]1876, Printers' Circular, volume 11, page 34:

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